Ronald F. Levant is an American psychologist, professor emeritus at the University of Akron, and a former president of the American Psychological Associations (APA).
Education Levant earned an undergraduate degree from the University of California Berkeley. He subsequently completed a Doctor of Education (EdD) at Harvard University and Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Boston University.
Career Much of Levant's research and clinical work focuses on men and fatherhood. In the 1980s, while at Boston University, he taught parenting courses for fathers and co-authored the guide "Between Father and Child". He later served as the editor of the peer-reviewed journal "Psychology of Men and Masculinity" from 2007 to 2015.
Levant has held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, Rutgers University, and Nova Southeastern University. .
Within the APA, Levant served as president in 2005 and is a former president of two divisions: Family Psychology and the Psychology of Men and Masculinities. He is also a past president of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. . In 2011, he received the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research. His 2020 co-authored book, "The Tough Standard", won the William James Book Award from the APA's General Psychology division in 2021.
Selected publications (with John Kelly). . . Masculinity Reconstructed. Dutton, 1995. (With Gini Kopecky). ISBN 0-525-93846-X (editor, with Gary R. Brooks). . (with Y. Joel Wong). . (with Shana Pryor). . (with Shana Pryor). (with Alisa Bowman).
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